Unless I par something tomorrow it will be exactly 4 months and counting. Best so far is +4 at Coachman; I have all the capabilities to shoot par or better there but I've yet to put it all together at once.

when i started seriously playing i looked for all the courses around denver, co. and found a little pitch and putt course. it was very easy and i shot -6 on the nine holes it had. i even almost aced a few and back then all i had was a trashed teebird...not even a putter.

so i guess my answer is a couple days.

as for better courses i shot -1 at lamar park in corpus christi in a good amount of wind for my first "real under par" round. that was like 4 months after i started.

i need to find out the real pars for some other courses cause i think i might of shot par at some others...its just that i count everything as a par 3.

Shot par in my first 9-hole round in April 1989. I played a 9-hole course with 141g and 165g Frisbees and shot 27. Someone had told me the holes were par 3 and I started thinking I was ready to go pro! Come to find out this 9-hole course was a pitch and putt with no hole over 245. Got killed at my first 36-hole event a few weeks later not knowing there was such a thing as golf discs. Probably shot at least +20 that event.

Went to a sporting goods store right afterwards and got my first driver. The Innova literature said this disc had the world record so I got me a 195g Phenix as my first disc. Couldn't throw it straight for at least a month. Then got a 168g Eclipse and my game started coming around. Too foggy to remember but it probably took the rest of the summer to shoot par on one of our more legit disc golf courses in town.

well i usually play every hole par 3 no matter what. So i end with like plus 5 or so.

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I've been playing almost a year (less, if you don't include winter), and my personal best is +1. I usually throw about +7 or +8. If it means anything, I only play par 3, and the courses I regularly play are ones that will be used for an A-tier event in a week. This also includes a course that was used for the world's in 2003.

It probably took me about 6 months to shoot under par. The funny thing is that I played a BUNCH back then... after about 5 months I could birdie pretty much all the holes. But I kept ending my rounds at +1,+3,+2,etc. Then one day I finished -4. Thats it. No baby steps to 0 or -3, just... BOOM. -3. It took a short while to do it again but once my consistency kicked in then it was smooth sailing.